Annual General Meeting 2021, some Updates

By Lorenz Trippel | News | 07.08.2021 10:09 | Comments: 2

In 2021 the european congress was again canceled, and so an in person meeting was not possible. Thus all country representatives had instead to sit in front of a camera! 26 of the 37 countries joined the online meeting. Contrary to the last two meetings we could finally agree on a decision for a new membership fee system, and the election for the two board members for the Iwamoto European Foundation IEF also happened this time.  Read more...

The 41st WAGC: Interviews With Top European Participants

By Artem Kachanovskyi | Interviews | 23.06.2021 15:49 | Comments: 9

Interviews with Lukáš Podpěra 7d and Stanisław Frejlak 7d about their excellent results in the 41st WAGC  Read more...

Go Magic: When Quality Matters

By Vadim Efimenko | Articles | 17.05.2021 23:30

Introducing a new Go project from wintery Russia, developed by a couple of guys who love Go more than balalaikas and borscht. Interactive courses, skill trees and lots of magic!  Read more...

The European Pro League is now Transatlantic

By Ali Jabarin | International | 04.05.2021 23:46 | Comments: 6

Announcement of the 4th season of the Professional Online Go League. This time the American professional players are joining and the league changes its name to Transatlantic.  Read more...

An interview with Lukáš Podpěra

By Tony Claasen | Interviews | 20.04.2021 10:18 | Comments: 1

This interview with Lukáš Podpěra was planned for 2 sessions after we had a small discussion about playing online.

Focus on yourself and be honest in your game and the plans you set.
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European Go Journal: New Project Starts

By Artem Kachanovskyi | News | 05.03.2021 14:40 | Comments: 14

An announcement of the European Go Journal - a new project  Read more...

Spanish translation completed for the Multilingual Go book Project

By H. Kapolos | Articles | 20.02.2021 20:38

Another completed translation of the Multilingual Go project's book, joins the already existing English, French and Greek versions. This time it was the Spanish language's turn, which is another step in the project's goal of making Go content more accessible to new players, in their native language.  Read more...

Special General Meeting January 2021

By Lorenz Trippel | News | 06.02.2021 20:07

Due to the uncertainity caused by the Covid-19 pandemic many of the administrative and planning tasks of the EGF couldn't be handled at the usual Annual Meeting in July 2020. Several countries couldn't vote at that meeting as they had lost their status as a developing country, they would have needed to pay 200 € instead of the reduced fee of 50€.   Read more...

Take part in the 1st International „End Polio Now“ Go Tournament!

By Christoph Klawe | News | 20.12.2020 18:45 | Comments: 1

Sure, there are more important problems in life than Go, but sometimes Go can help at least a little bit to solve these issues, too. One such issue is poliomyelitis („polio“). This terrible virus disease used to be very frequent. It affects mostly children, destroys nerve centers and often leads to severe and lasting handicap or even death. Poliomyelitis can be effectively prevented by a well explored and safe vaccination. Thanks to this, the number of new cases per year went down from 350,000 in 1988 to less than 100 in 2019. Now, polio exists in only two countries of the world, Afghanistan and Pakistan.  Read more...